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Originally Posted by CivicBlues
MERS was named after a geographical area. It would be much worse if it was called "Chinese Virus" but perhaps it's due to the negative connotations associated with China *blank* being used as a slur. Sorta how "Chinaman" is racist but not "Irishman" or "Frenchman"
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Exactly my point, China is a geographic location, middle eastern is less geographic than it is ethnic, but they're both geographic, I'd agree with all the PC outcry if these were called the arab or chinese respiratory syndrome
The racism as you put it, is coming from us Chinese not in China, we're probably the most outspoken "eww not again mainlanders" "eww mainlanders be fucked up" "stay away from mainlanders" white ppl are just like "not again China, sigh, always Doin crazy shit"
It seems more like white ppl are shocked by the craziness, while other chinese/asians are getting nasty